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AU - Paton, Bernadette.
AB - Bernadette Paton Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, Number 16, 1995, pp. 79-89 (Article) Published by Dictionary Society of North America DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.1995.0005 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/456876/summary Access provided at 20 Feb 2020 05:32 GMT from JHU Libraries New-Word Lexicography and the OED Bernadette Patón Introduction Determining the policy and strategy for the inclusion of new words in a historical dictionary is one of the most controversial as- pects of the lexicographer's job. To the public at large, the appear- ance of a neologism in one of the major English language dictionaries is evidence that the word or phrase has "arrived." But the task of de- ciding which of the thousands of coinages published and broadcast each year are likely to survive is by no means a clear-cut one. For those who spend their days deciding whether a word or phrase is or is not part of the language, the boundaries between "real" words and eccentric inventions, irrelevant ephemera, and simple dis- crepancies of usage can be blurred and arbitrary. In the words of Sir James Murray: The English language is not a square with definite sides con- taining its area; it is 
TI - New-Word Lexicography and the OED
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